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Who among us hasn’t wished to join the Power Rangers or take a ride in a Transformer?

Japanese engineer Masaaki Nagumo made his own Mobile Suit Gundam dreams a reality when he created a giant humanoid inspired by the sci-fi franchise.

The fictional RX-78-2 Gundam manned robot—based on Robert Heinlein’s 1959 novel “Starship Troopers”—is a prototype weapon that falls into the hands of a young mechanic-turned-pilot.

The real-life LW-Mononofu—developed at Sakakibara Kikai in Japan—is a 28-foot-tall, two-legged robot that weighs more than an elephant. Nagumo controls the machine’s arms and legs from inside the cockpit.

Nagumo controls the robot from its cockpit (via Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

“I think this can be turned into a business opportunity,” the 44-year-old engineer told Reuters of his 7-ton apparatus. (After all, the original series spawned anime and manga, novels, movies, video games, and generations of fans.)

Developer Sakakibara Kikai, which manufactures farming equipment, has built other robots and “amusement machines,” according to Reuters.

Its varied collection includes the 11-foot Landwalker, as well as the smaller Kid’s Walker Cyclops and MechBoxer boxing machine, each of which the firm rents for about 100,000 yen ($932) an hour.

The massive Mononofu, however, would surely command an equally towering price. There’s just one hitch: It can’t leave the factory without being dismantled, because it was built taller than the workshop doors.

You don’t want to mess with this droid (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

As reported by Reuters, Nagumo’s colossal cyborg can maneuver individual fingers, turn its upper body, and walk forward and backward—at a pace of about 0.6 miles per hour.

But no one could be fooled by its leisurely clip: Towering over any human, the bot carries a bazooka-like air gun on its right arm, shooting sponge balls at a dangerous 87 mph.

“As an anime-inspired robot that one can ride, I think this is the biggest in the world,” Nagumo boasted.